They really are short (you can see that when Thorin stands next to Gandalf, but I think it's just because they're younger, at least in Fili and Kili's case.
Thorin's just special. He just doesn't age, apparently.

it's not really their height, but i feel like dwarfs should be fatter. like you should be able to tell that they're a dwarf when they're not standing near anyone else. and in the book, they all have beards that are down to their waist (approx).
but i guess that was one of the smallest changes in the movie, and it was amazing regardless, so whatever.

Yeah but the Hobbit was always more a child's tale than the LotR trilogy. I always felt like the Hobbit was the book you read your kids to sleep with so that one day when they grow up they're get their hands on the trilogy and be all like yay Tolkein.

Basically its been getting bad/average reviews from many film critics and 9/10 people who go to see it themselves love it. I honestly don't take notice of film reviews anymore unless they are really, really bad. I think most of them take films far too seriously (simply due to their career) and have forgotten what a wonderful adventure film feels like.

I think it's one of those things that's so bad, even we'll only touch it if it's hypothetical. somehow, hearing about 20 something toddlers dying really isn't as funny when you know it actually happened.